Crowd source content editing

Abstract

Crowd source editing of digital images to reduce errors in a digital images includes receiving a proposed modification to a content portion of a digital image. A determination is made as the whether the occurrence of the proposed modification to the content portions meets a modification threshold. Accordingly, the proposed modification to the content portion of the digital image is adopted when the occurrence of the specific modification meets the modification threshold.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A method comprising:
 receiving, at an electronic device, a proposed modification for a content portion of a digital image; 
 submitting the proposed modification for the content portion to a server that determines whether a number of occurrences of the proposed modification for the content portion meets a modification threshold or a suggestion threshold that is lower than the modification threshold; 
 providing a modified digital image for display that includes the proposed modification for the content portion in response to the server determining that the number of occurrences meets the modification threshold; and 
 providing another modified digital image for display that includes the content portion and a modification indicator that shows a presence of embedded metadata for the content portion in response to the server determining that the number of occurrences meets the suggestion threshold, the embedded metadata including the proposed modification for the content portion. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the embedded metadata further includes a percentage of total modification submissions from multiple users for the content portion that designated the proposed modification as a proper modification for the content portion. 
     
     
       3. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the receiving includes:
 receiving a selection of the content portion and an error modification request for the content portion; 
 presenting a content modification interface that displays the content portion in response to receiving the error modification request; and 
 receiving the proposed modification for the content portion via the content modification interface. 
 
     
     
       4. The method of  claim 3 , wherein the error modification request includes a typographical error modification request or a format modification request. 
     
     
       5. The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing for display the modified digital image includes providing the modified digital image in response to the server determining that the number of occurrences of the proposed modification meets the modification threshold and in response to an administrator approving the proposed modification. 
     
     
       6. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the electronic device is an electronic book reader device. 
     
     
       7. The method of  claim 1 , wherein each of the modification threshold or the suggestion threshold is a predetermined number, a percentage of users that downloaded the digital image to a plurality of electronic devices, or a percentage of the users that downloaded and viewed the digital image on the plurality of electronic devices. 
     
     
       8. The method of  claim 1 , wherein the proposed modification is a spelling modification, a grammar modification, or a format modification of the content portion. 
     
     
       9. A computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
 receiving a proposed modification to a content portion of a digital image; 
 submitting the proposed modification for the content portion to a server that determines whether a number of occurrences of the proposed modification for the content portion meets a modification threshold; and 
 providing a modified digital image for display that includes the proposed modification for the content portion in response to the server determining that the number of occurrences meets the modification threshold. 
 
     
     
       10. The computer readable medium of  claim 9 , wherein the server further determines whether the number of occurrences of the proposed modification for the content portion meets a suggestion threshold that is lower than the modification threshold, and wherein the acts further comprise providing another modified digital image for display that includes the content portion and a modification indicator that shows a presence of embedded metadata for the content portion in response to the server determining that the number of occurrences of the proposed modification meets the suggestion threshold, the embedded metadata including the proposed modification for the content portion. 
     
     
       11. The computer readable medium of  claim 10 , wherein the acts further comprise providing the embedded metadata for display in response to receiving a selection of the content portion in the modified digital image. 
     
     
       12. The computer readable medium of  claim 10 , wherein each of the modification threshold or the suggestion threshold is a predetermined number, a percentage of users that downloaded the digital image to a plurality of electronic devices, or a percentage of the users that downloaded and viewed the digital image on the plurality of electronic devices. 
     
     
       13. The computer readable medium of  claim 10 , wherein the embedded metadata further includes a percentage of total modification submissions from multiple users for the content portion that designated the proposed modification as a proper modification for the content portion. 
     
     
       14. The computer readable medium of  claim 9 , wherein the proposed modification is a spelling modification, a grammar modification, or a format modification of the content portion. 
     
     
       15. An electronic device comprising:
 one or more processors; and 
 memory storing components executable by the one or more processors, the components comprising: 
 a content modification component that receives a proposed modification to a content portion of a digital image; and 
 a data interface component that submits the proposed modification for the content portion to a server that determines whether a number of occurrences of the proposed modification for the content portion meets a modification threshold, 
 wherein the content modification component generates a modified digital image that includes the proposed modification for the content portion when the server determines that the number of occurrences meets the modification threshold. 
 
     
     
       16. The electronic device of  claim 15 , further comprising a display component that provides the modified digital image for display. 
     
     
       17. The electronic device of  claim 15 , wherein the server further determines whether the number of occurrences of the proposed modification for the content portion meets a suggestion threshold that is lower than the modification threshold, and wherein the content modification component generates another modified digital image that includes the content portion and a modification indicator that shows a presence of embedded metadata for the content portion when the server determines that the number of occurrences meets the suggestion threshold, the embedded metadata including the proposed modification for the content portion. 
     
     
       18. The electronic device of  claim 17 , wherein the embedded metadata further includes a percentage of total modification submissions from multiple users for the content portion that designated the proposed modification as a proper modification for the content portion. 
     
     
       19. The electronic device of  claim 15 , wherein the content modification component receives the proposed modification by receiving an error modification request for the content portion, presenting a content modification interface that displays the content portion in response to the error modification request, and receiving the proposed modification for the content portion via the content modification interface. 
     
     
       20. The electronic device of  claim 15 , wherein the proposed modification is a spelling modification, a grammar modification, or a format modification of the content portion.